After Tuesday’s brilliance, Newcastle United were brought back down to earth with a bump – and that was reflected in Mark Douglas’ merit marks.

United lost 2-0 to Wolves on a day when nothing went right. Chancel Mbemba scored an own goal and then United were hit by a Helder Costa sucker punch in the second half.

It was all they deserved and Rafa Benitez was not happy.

“To be fair, I was not expecting to start the game in the way that we started,” he said.

“Sometimes you can expect you will make mistakes or it will be a bad game or you will have maybe bad luck. But we started the game making mistake after mistake and after the own goal, it was even worse because it was at a time when we had more control.

“They were not creating anything at that moment and then we gave them the opportunity to believe and keep working hard trying to get that result.

“The second goal was the same, another mistake, so we made too many and that’s the reason why we lost the game.”

But who stepped up? And who let the side down on a day when United’s performance was simply not good enough? Click below to see Mark Douglas’ player ratings.

Time Line

Mark Douglas' NUFC ratings

Matz SELS 6

Made one good stop early on but could do little about the goals

Vurnon ANITA 5

Late red card looked touch and go - but not a good day

Jamaal LASCELLES 4

A poor day for the skipper, who delivered an error-strewn display

Chancel MBEMBA 3

Woeful own goal capped a dreadful day for the defender

Paul DUMMETT 4

Like the rest of the back four, he just wasn’t at it

Matt RITCHIE 6

At least tried to make things happen, although indiscipline forced him off

Jonjo SHELVEY 4

After Tuesday’s brilliance, this was just not good enough

Isaac HAYDEN 5

Worked hard enough but he didn’t have much of an impact on the game at all

Ayoze PEREZ 3

This is not his position but even so: his profligacy was unforgiveable

Mo DIAME 3

How many times did he give the ball away? Needs to improve

Dwight GAYLE 4

Anonymous after his recall

Substitutions

CHRISTIAN ATSU 4

For Ritchie, 63. Not a great time to come on, but didn’t do an awful lot